“I feel so grateful to be in partnerships where I can learn and grow.”
Steering Committee Chair Alicia Okpareke
North Star
We envision an equity-centered education system that actively supports and facilitates the production, mobilization, and use of evidence in shaping policy and practice. Such a system is guided by the principles of democratizing evidence:
Inclusive engagement: An inclusive and diverse group of stakeholders—students, educators, researchers, families, communities, and people who hold differing identities and statuses— participate as informed voices in shaping the production and use of evidence. The authentic engagement of those most adversely affected by education inequality is a high priority.
Full participation: Stakeholder participation spans the entire spectrum of evidence production and use including identifying problems to study, developing research agendas, conducting research, interpreting findings, and using evidence to design and implement policy and practice.
Responsive agendas: Research addresses high priority problems of practice and policy with a special focus on access to high quality curriculum and instruction. In this way, all students stand to benefit and succeed, with high priority attention given to equity issues relating to historically disenfranchised students and communities.
Responsible production and use: Toward a more evidence-informed education system, stakeholders respect scientific inquiry and reporting while integrating lived experience, practice-based evidence, indigenous knowledge, and community values in education decision-making.
Mission
The mission of the Education Knowledge Broker Network is to cultivate an inclusive professional community of knowledge brokers in education committed to democratizing the production and use of evidence in service of an education system that is just and equitable, with particular attention to learners and communities who have been historically and systematically disenfranchised. The Network provides space and learning opportunities for brokers to:
authentically engage content and context experts,
elevate the voice of practitioners and educators and other key stakeholders,
facilitate the ethical and collaborative production of evidence and exchange of knowledge,
curate promising educational practices and high quality curriculum,
promote the use of evidence for educational decision making at the local, state, federal, and tribal levels.
Goals
Build the field and the profession: Actively promote knowledge brokering as a professional enterprise, expand and diversify Network membership, and generate leadership and grassroot support in the education system and community.
Assess needs and continuously improve: Regularly assess the needs and interests of knowledge brokers and the communities they serve and, as an organization, test and make adjustments to continuously improve network activities.
Learn and collaborate: Provide collaborative learning opportunities to brokers in the various aspects of brokering such as those related to equity and justice, inclusive engagement, co-production, sustainability, and knowledge management.
Share brokering tools: Develop and share tools for effective brokering and engagement with particular attention to elevating practitioners as co-equals and identifying effective outreach and delivery strategies.
Advance policy: Advocate for policies at all levels that support the process of knowledge brokering and its professionalization and that catalyzes innovation in the systems surrounding brokering.
Expand the knowledge base: Encourage impact and implementation research on effective brokering strategies and structures with particular attention to diversity, equity, and inclusion goals.
Build and sustain a network infrastructure: Build an infrastructure for the network (governance, operations, budget) that responds to needs of the field and ensures sustainability for long term growth and development
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